John MacBride

John MacBride

Major John MacBride (sometimes mistranscribed as McBride) (8 May 1868 – 5 May 1916) was an Irish republican executed for his participation in the 1916 Easter Rising.

Read more about John MacBride:  Early Life, Participation in The Second Anglo-Boer War, Marriage To Maud Gonne, The Easter Rising

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